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Policies and measures to tackle unacceptable behaviour across Defence, including ways to respond and report it.

• Updated: 13 November 2025

Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments

• Overview

  Your employer can ask you to stay at home or take unpaid leave if there’s…

• Guarantee pay

  Rate and length of statutory lay-off pay You’re entitled to guarantee pay…

• Applying for redundancy

  You could apply for redundancy and claim redundancy pay if you’ve been…

• Extra work or claiming benefits

  You can take on another job while you’re laid off or on short-time (unless…

The template Short Form Contract is primarily for below-threshold, low value, non-complex goods and services. It can also be used for above-threshold non-complex goods and services, where appropriate

• Updated: 1 September 2025

How to declare goods that are short shipped on import at temporary storage locations.

• Updated: 21 July 2025

• Updated: 1 January 2010

How catch limits are set and how to get involved in setting them. This includes current catch limits and closed fishing areas.

• Updated: 23 July 2015

Statistics on strengths, requirements, intakes and outflows from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

• Updated: 15 September 2017

A £20 million Shared Outcomes Fund initiative which works across sectors to test new ways to break the cycle of crime.

• Updated: 13 April 2022

Minister for Safeguarding Jess Phillips delivers a statement to the House of Commons around the new Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy.

• Updated: 18 December 2025

Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.

• Updated: 7 April 2017